QUETTA, June 23: Eleven more foreigners were arrested on Friday in a raid on a house on the city outskirts after five foreign Al Qaeda suspects were rounded up overnight from the Zhob area.

“Personnel of law-enforcment agencies raided a house in the Kakar Colony and rounded up 11 suspects, including the owner of the house,” sources said, adding that they were all Afghans. “They (the 11 Afghans) were arrested on the information provided by the Turk and the Afghan men arrested from Zhob,” sources said.

They said that during interrogation the Turks and Afghan suspects had told their interrogators that they arrived in Zhob on Tuesday after spending a month in Quetta before travelling to Wana. They said that they had been staying at the house of one Qayamuddin, an Afghan refugee, in Quetta.

The arrested Afghans and Turks were later handed over to officials concerned.

Meanwhile, four other Afghans, belonging to the Northern Alliance, were arrested from Quetta. They were picked up in connection with their involvement in terrorist and subversive activities in different areas of Balochistan.